CHELSEA JOHNSON - 15 yo - Fairfield OH

FAIRFIELD — Police are investigating how a 15-year-old missing girl wound up this Butler County city’s latest homicide victim.Chelsea Johnson, 15, left her home Sunday afternoon but did not return, police said in a prepared statement.
Her mother reported her missing at 9 a.m. Monday.
By 6 p.m, her body was found down an embankment behind an apartment building near Brookfield Drive, police said.
The
teen lives about two miles away on Southgate Boulevard, police said,
but they have not disclosed what, if any, connection she had to the
apartment complex.
Police also have not said how she died, and no arrests have been made.
They were on the scene gathering evidence until late Monday.
Her autopsy will be performed today, according to the Butler County Coroner’s Office.

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Missing Teenager Found Stabbed To Death

FAIRFIELD, Ohio - Fairfield police said
that Chelsea Johnson was stabbed, but investigators aren't releasing
much more information, ONN’s Lot Tan reported.

Family members said that Chelsea was a responsible 15-year-old who
stayed away from drugs and always let her mom know where she was going.

Those same family and friends are trying to make sense of Chelsea’s death.

Phil Johnson said that he is in disbelief and doesn’t know why anyone would want to kill his granddaughter.

"They said my granddaughter was found dead in the creek that's all we
know." Johnson said. " We were really close, she trusted people to a
fault. Guess that was her final doing, but she was a loveable child had a
big heart." said Johnson.

Johnson said that Chelsea was a typical teen who loved to text and
talk to friends, and will be rememberd for being an avid reader and
loving outdoor activities.

"She loved to fish, I taught her that. I used to take her fishing all the time." Johnson said.

Fairfield police said that Chelsea was last seen at her home on
Sunday afternoon. Her mother reported her missing at 9 a.m. on Monday,
and nine hours later friends found her body near a creek two miles away
from her home.

Family friend Monty Applegate said that he was the one who found
Chelsea's body. Applegate told ONN that moment he experienced a range of
emotions from shock to anger to heartbreak.

Chelsea attended Fairfield Options Academy. The school's principal
Bob Polson said that the 9th grader received good grades in school.

"Shocking… tragic… no 15-year-old girl should lose her life in such a way." Polson said.
http://www.onntv.com/content/stories/2012/04/17/story-lt-missing-teen-found-dead.html

FAIRFIELD — Dressed for a warm spring day, 15-year-old Chelsea
Johnson left home late Sunday morning dressed in black shorts, a red
tie-dye shirt and black flip flops.



Monday evening Chelsea, who
those close to her said was “always smiling,” was found stabbed to death
and left in a wooded area near a creek bed fewer than two miles from her Fairfield home.
Police are searching for any clues to what happened in the teen’s final hours and who stabbed her.
This is the second homicide in Fairfield in the past four weeks and just the second since 2009.
Fairfield Police Chief Mike Dickey declined to comment on details, noting the
homicide investigation is ongoing. But he said it is not connected to
last summer’s disappearance of a 22-year-old college student.
“It’s definitely not related to Katelyn Markham,” Dickey said. Markham was
last seen at her Dorshire Drive townhouse in Fairfield on Aug. 13.
Dickey said Tuesday night that there is also no indication other children are in danger from the perpetrator.
“The act was directed toward Chelsea,” Dickey said.
Dickey said detectives need help from anyone who saw the Fairfield Options
Academy freshman, who weighed about 100 pounds and had long brown hair.
“We are trying to track her movements ... to develop a time line for her last hours,” he said.
As police continue to look for clues in the slaying, Chelsea’s family and
friends try to cope with the trauma of her sudden death.
Her body was found about 6 p.m. Monday near a creek adjacent to the Heritage Glen
Apartment complex on Brookfield Drive and Pleasant Avenue, according to
Fairfield police. The site is about two miles from where Chelsea lived on Southgate Boulevard.
In a 911 call, an unidentified man screams and cries for help.
“Oh, my God,” the man said. “I have a body in the creek ... a little girl’s body in the creek.”
The caller said “we” just reported her missing Monday morning and was able to tell the dispatcher that it was Chelsea.
“She’s not moving,” the man cried.
Fairfield police Lt. Kevin Haddix said he couldn’t release information related to
evidence recovered from the scene or possible suspects.
Haddix said Tuesday there were attempts by police patrols in the area to locate
the missing girl, but it wasn’t until police received a call at 6 p.m.
Monday that they were led to the body.
An autopsy was performed Tuesday, according to the Butler County Coroner’s Office,
which ruled that the teen had been stabbed.
The girl’s mother, Vicky L. Fible, 38, reported her daughter missing around
9 a.m. Monday after she didn’t return home after leaving late Sunday
morning, police said. According to the report, Chelsea left her
apartment in the 5300 block of Southgate Boulevard about noon.
Before talking to the police, Fible went to her daughter’s school, trying to
find out if classmates had heard from her daughter or knew where she
could be, said Fairfield Options Academy Principal Bob Polson. Students
attempted to call or text message her, and both staff and students were
concerned because Chelsea wasn’t the type of girl who would run away or
not keep in touch, the principal said.
Fible said she last saw her
daughter around 11:30 a.m. Sunday when she returned home from work -
she is a home care provider for a disabled man - to make her daughter
grilled cheese sandwiches for lunch. Fible said she also has an
11-year-old son, Bryan, and the family has lived in Fairfield for two
years after moving from Ross Twp.
Fible said she moved her family
from Ross because of the high drug crime and SWAT raids.“I thought I was
moving to a safe neighborhood; Fairfield is not what they say it is,”
Fible said. “I hope somebody comes forward with information, it’s not fair to my girl.”
Fairfield City Councilman Mike Oler, a former
Fairfield police officer, said he is concerned about what appears to be
more frequent crime in the city, but does not fault the current police department.
“You can’t solve every crime. You just can’t,” Oler said. “I’m not concerned about the work done on it.”
Chelsea’s mother described her daughter as someone who was “always trying to make people laugh.”
“She was my best friend and would always write me notes telling me she loves me,” Fible said.
Grief counselors were available at Options Academy on Tuesday.
“It’s been a horrible day,” Polson said, having had to deliver grim news to the close-knit group of 90 students.
“With kids, you have to be up front, tell them the truth and then go from
there,” he said. No vigils had been planned as of Tuesday; Poslon said
it was “too soon” to consider that.
The Heritage Glen Apartment
complex where Chelsea was found has been under construction and no one
is living in the buildings. Construction crews were working in the area
Tuesday and few signs were visible of a police investigation. One
building in that complex was severely damaged in a fire and had been
left standing as an empty shell. The complex, under new ownership, is in
the midst of a $2.5 million renovation project.
The site where Chelsea was found is less
than a quarter of a mile from where Markham was last seen Aug. 13 at her
Dorshire Drive townhouse. Markham’s disappearance drew national
attention and prompted extensive searches.
Damien Terrell Taylor was found dead March 15 in the 5100 block of Winton
Road. Dickey said the fatal shooting was not random and that Taylor
suffered at least one gunshot wound. Dickey said there are no suspects.
Phil Johnson, Chelsea’s grandfather and Fible’s father, said every summer
Chelsea spent a couple weeks with her grandparents at their rural home
in Ripley County, Ind. Chelsea was one of Johnson’s six grandchildren.
“She loved to fish and camp,” he said. “She wanted to be a veterinarian; she
loved animals. She had two hamsters and we bought her a Cockatoo (bird).”
Johnson said he gave his
granddaughter a Kindle e-reader for Christmas and the teen had almost
5,000 books loaded onto it. Fible said her daughter loved reading the “Twilight” vampire series.
Johnson said as Chelsea grew up he was the father-figure in her life, as her
biological father has not been in her life, or paid child support in 15 years.
“She trusted people to a fault, which might have been what happened,” Johnson said.
Chelsea has been enrolled in Fairfield City Schools since 2010. She transferred
to the alternative school in January from the freshman campus, and
worked as a cashier in the school store, Polson said.
She found the smaller class sizes and individual attention suited her
better, Ruth Gronostaj, a teacher at Options said. Johnson said his
granddaughter was maintaining a B-plus average.
Chelsea had not been at Options long, but she definitely made an impression, said Gronostaj.
Like Chelsea, Gronostaj had been at Options only a short while. She had been
a teacher at Fairfield Freshman School, where Chelsea had also attended.
“She and I talked about that (similarity),” said Gronostaj.
“She found this to be her niche, because, as Chelsea said, there was less
drama,” said Gronostaj, who teaches English and career-based
intervention. The latter means directing students in a work environment,
and she supervised Chelsea’s work at the school store, which sells
snacks, such as chips and corn dogs.
Chelsea was “very kind and sensitive to others. She was all about following the
rules. She was a person you enjoyed being with,” said Gronostaj.
Ironically, English was “maybe not her favorite subject,” the English teacher said
with a smile. “But she was good about asking questions. You knew what
she was thinking. She was very polite and very courteous.”
Chelsea was still trying to figure out what her career goals were, but whatever
she ended up doing, she was going to thrive, said Gronostaj.
“I told her, ‘I’ve given you a lot of responsibility, and you’ve gone
beyond my expectations.’ She was one of three people I thoroughly
trusted,” said her teacher.
“She just had a gentle approach and was always smiling. She was extremely polite, and
very courteous. She will be greatly missed,” Gronostaj said.
Polson said the 90 students are divided into two sessions of about 40 to 45
students, and Chelsea was with the afternoon session. Students there
take a typical high school curriculum, some of which is online so
students can work at their own pace, Poslon said. Some students also
participate in work placement programs, as Chelsea did.
Almost weekly, Polson said she would come into his office, asking him to write
a note home, telling her mother and grandmother how well she was doing,
he said, noting she was proud of her school work.
“She was a really good student for us,” he said. “She seemed very happy here, she seemed proud of herself.”
Donations are being accepted at any PNC bank location under the Chelsea Johnson Memorial Fund.
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Poster's Note: This post was originally made by mom_in_il. In trying to adjust the video portion I effed the whole damn thing up. Now reposted with kind credit and apology to the Champagne Lady.


FAIRFIELD, Ohio - Vicky Fible knew something was wrong when her
15-year-old daughter failed to answer her calls on her cellphone. Fible
last saw her daughter, Chelsea Johnson, on Sunday morning.

"She told me she was going to the store with a friend," said Fible. "I was at work and didn't think anything of it."

Fible
became worried when she got home from work and Johnson wasn't home. "I
kept calling and that's not like her. She always calls me and always
texts me to let me know where she is at and what's going on," said
Fible. "When I called and left four messages and she never responded, I
knew something bad had happened."

On Monday morning, she
contacted the Fairfield Police Department to report her missing. "I
thought I had to wait 24 hours because you always hear on TV you have to
wait 24 hours to report someone missing and then I found out with a
minor you don't have to do that," said Fible. "So I'm feeling bad that I
waited 24 hours."

Johnson's body was discovered on Monday
night near a creek that runs behind Brookfield Drive near Pleasant
Avenue according to her mom. This is located about a mile from her home
on Southgate Boulevard. "A friend said he remembered she was going
fishing at Heritage Glen," said Fible. "My boyfriend and his son went
in their truck to go look for her. Three hours went by and I didn't hear
nothing. I knew, I knew. And they called police."

Police are
investigating her death as a homicide. An autopsy was performed on
Tuesday, according to the Butler County Coroner's Office.
Police cannot say if this was random or if Johnson knew her killer.
A
spokesperson for Fairfield City Schools says Johnson attended Options
Academy . It's an alternative school where students take academic
classes plus a required work-study class. Counselors are on hand to help
classmates with their grief.

"She was happy and flourishing
here," said Principal Bob Polson of Options Academy. "She came to me and
asked me to write her mom to tell her how well she was doing."

Inside Fible's apartment, a letter hangs on the wall from Chelsea given on Valentine's Day.

"She
was always telling me she loved me," Fible said. "I just want someone
who knows something about this to come forward and do the right thing.
She was just a baby. My baby."
A memorial fund has been set up at any PNC Bank to help the family with the burial cost.
If
you have any information regarding this incident, call Crime Stoppers
at (513) 352-3040. Your crime tips will remain anonymous and you can
receive a cash reward for your information.


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CBS/AP) FAIRFIELD, Ohio - Police in Fairfield, Ohio are now searching
for the killer of 15-year-old Chelsea Johnson, who was found stabbed to
death Monday about nine hours after she was reported missing. Johnson
was found behind an apartment building Monday evening about two miles
from her home. An autopsy determined she'd been fatally
stabbed. Johnson's mother, who reported her missing on Monday, told
police the teen left home Sunday afternoon.
Investigators
say they have questioned several people but so far, no charges have
been filed and no arrests made, reports CBS affiliate WKRC.
They do not believe her death is connected to the disappearance of
another Fairfield woman, 22-year-old Katelyn Markham, who lived near
Johnson and went missing on August 14, 2011.
According to WKRC, detectives say there is video of Johnson, captured by security cameras at a nearby convenience store.
Muo
Salh, a manager at the convenience store, said Johnson had been in the
store around 12:30 p.m. Sunday with "her neighbor," whom he had seen
before but could not identify, reports the Springfield News-Sun. Salh reportedly says the neighbor bought a prepaid phone card, and then he and Johnson left.
WKRC reports that a candlelight vigil will be held for Johnson on Friday.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57416403-504083/chelsea-johnson-missing-ohio-teen-found-stabbed-to-death-in-woods/

The circumstances of Chelsea Johnson’s death lead investigators to
believe that the 15-year-old knew her attacker, Police Chief Michael
Dickey said Thursday.“She was stabbed. That’s a personal crime,”
Dickey said. “That means that somebody was close to her at the time.
Stabbing is up close and personal and that’s why we believe that once
this person is identified we will know what that relationship is.”
Police
have said there is no evidence to suggest the slaying is related to the
unresolved disappearance of Katelyn Markham, a 22-year-old college
student who vanished from her Dorshire Drive home in Fairfield in
August.
Chelsea’s body was discovered Monday evening about a mile
from her home on Southgate Boulevand in a creek behind a mostly
abandoned apartment complex on Brookfield Drive.
The Options
Academy freshman apparently vanished around noon Sunday. Her mother,
Vicky Fible, filed a missing person’s report around 9 a.m. Monday.
Dickey
said parents in Fairfield shouldn’t unnecessarily worry that their
children are going to be snatched off the street and murdered in the
wake of Chelsea’s death.
“We have no reason to believe that
parents have to take (anything) other than the normal routine safety
precautions you take with your children,” he said.
Police have
been closemouthed about details of the investigation, but that’s typical
of the agency in previous high-profile cases.
“You begin with the
end in mind. Our end is a conviction, not just an arrest and walking
away from it,” Dickey said of the reason for that.
Funeral
arrangements have been made for Chelsea, but the staff at Avance Funeral
Home in Fairfield said the family has asked that they be kept private .
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A man has been jailed on charges alleging he offered heroin to a
15-year-old Ohio girl in exchange for sex on the day she went missing.
She was found stabbed to death the next day. The JournalNews of
Hamilton reports Fairfield police say 24-year-old George Donald Davis II
communicated by text messages with Chelsea Johnson on April 15. Police
say Davis initially offered her prescription drugs, then heroin for sex.
Police declined to discuss what happened afterward.
Davis was in
Butler County Jail on Friday under $250,000 bond. He's charged with
importuning and drug trafficking. No attorney information was available.
No
one is charged in Johnson's death. Her mother reported her missing the
morning of April 16. Her body was found that evening, about two miles
from her home.
http://www.wdtn.com/dpp/news/ohio/man-held-in-connection-to-dead-teen#.T9NZxFKwW1w

George Davis II was arrested on drug charges last month. During a hearing last Friday, it was stated that Davis had solicited Chelsea Johnson to exchange sex for drugs on April 15, the last day she was seen alive.
Davis knows the Johnson family, investigators said.

A detective said there was evidence that the two had texted each other between 3:30 and 5:30 p.m. on April 15.

"There's quite an extensive conversation going on between Mr. Davis and the victim juvenile for almost 2 hours involving information about Mr. Davis delivering drugs to her, specifically heroin," Detective Mike Woodall said.
Johnson was found stabbed to death along a creek about a mile from her home on April 16.

Police would not call Davis a person of interest initially, saying they have several people they want to talk to about Johnson's death.

But Fairfield Police Chief Michael Dickey told News 5's Karin Johnson later Friday morning that Davis is a person of interest.

"With this case, he is in our zone of our investigation," Dickey said. "However, he has not risen to the level of a suspect, and we want to be clear on that."

Davis was in Butler County Jail on Friday under $250,000 bond, charged with importuning and drug trafficking.

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Poster's note: My heart breaks for the mothers' of these teens; they have not only lost their child but then the nightmare discovery of the drugs and sex their child was involved in - and public disclosure at that. Very sad.

This doesn't make sense.

It just doesn't make sense...something's off, wrong....it doesn't add up....

I realize this is an old case, but there is something about this case that just bothers me.

By ALL accounts, Chelsea was a responsible, happy, young lady who was flourishing at school - and I'm supposed to believe she's exchanging sex for heroin on the sly?

No - that doesn't add up. I'm going to find out what happened with the guy that was a suspect...something's hinky.